Photo: Tiffin419Ohio · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Tiffin have lower incomes than those in 80% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Tiffin is better than 33% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (A). 14.8% of residents are in poverty, against 13.3% across Ohio. About one in three work in Tiffin itself; outside it, Findlay draws the most (5%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Tiffin apart on work
Inside Tiffin’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Tiffin’s grade up (3.8%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($56,198, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tiffin could be anywhere from C− to B−.
About 16 minutes each way for Tiffin’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tiffin workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,030 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The workday shuffle in and out of Tiffin
On a workday 5,052 residents head out to work, 2,559 work right here, and 6,568 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.20 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Tiffin’s residents
Where Tiffin clocks in
5% of workers
3% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Tiffin
9,127 jobs are based in Tiffin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tiffin, 2013 → 2023: 8,850 → 9,127. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tiffin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Tiffin goes to work
About 21% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Tiffin
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 8,623 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.5% of Tiffin households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Tiffin’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tiffin is 1,638th of 2,103 U.S. towns of 12,000 to 24,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Powell OH | 18,269 | $195K | 1.1% | 2.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Hudson OH | 23,085 | $171K | 3.7% | 1.3% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,636 | Hardeeville SC | 16,459 | $78K | 11.8% | 7.3% | 6% | C |
| 1,637 | Elko NV | 21,019 | $79K | 13.8% | 5.2% | 56% | C |
| 1,638 | Tiffin OH | 17,803 | $56K | 14.8% | 3.8% | 34% | C |
| 1,639 | Guymon OK | 12,241 | $60K | 13.2% | 3.2% | 64% | C |
| 1,640 | Citrus Springs FL | 12,215 | $68K | 11.6% | 4.2% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,103 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Tiffin, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Work in the towns next to Tiffin
The biggest share goes to Clinton Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tiffin workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffin | – | C | A | 16 min | $56,198 |
| Clinton Township | 3% | B+ | C+ | 20 min | $93,355 |
| Hopewell Township | 3% | B | B− | 16 min | $61,434 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tiffin’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Tiffin: questions
What is the median household income in Tiffin?
$56,198 (±$4,582) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tiffin?
14.8%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tiffin?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tiffin work?
34% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Findlay (5%, 24 mi), Fremont (3%, 17 mi), Hopewell Township (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tiffin walkable?
Tiffin is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tiffin without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tiffin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tiffin
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.